Part of Concepts of Ahl as-Sunnah (series completed)
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Summary of Sunni concepts | Concept (804) | Child perception
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A summary of the concepts held by the Ahl al-Sunnah.
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The child’s perception.
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We often assume that a child is a small being who neither perceives nor understands.
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Yet, in reality, the child possesses an extraordinary capacity for both conscious and subconscious perception and absorption.
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This capacity is far greater than we imagine.
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Even if a child does not fully comprehend what they see in a complete sense,
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they are nonetheless influenced by everything they observe and sense around them.
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They possess two highly sensitive mechanisms:
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the mechanism of absorption and the mechanism of imitation.
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Through these combined, they absorb information either subconsciously or with incomplete consciousness.
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They then imitate what they have absorbed, also subconsciously or with incomplete consciousness.
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Thus, even if a child does not grasp the meanings of values and principles as we adults do,
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they still, in some way, establish within themselves
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a foundation upon which those principles will be built in the future.
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If the role model is good, the foundation will be sound,
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and there is a strong likelihood, by the permission of Allah, that the child will be righteous.
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But if the role model is poor, the foundation the child establishes will be unstable and crooked,
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and there is a higher probability of their corruption.